The Earth as seen from orbit, filmed in space by an IMAX camera aboard a NASA space convey goal in Dec 1988.
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IMAX, a large-format film company, has announced it will again launch moviegoers into outdoor space, this time in a 3D underline to be constructed with The Walt Disney Studios.

The still-to-be-titled film will be a eighth time IMAX has forked a cameras and screens toward space in a film led by filmmaker Toni Myers. According to a company, a prolongation will use “high-resolution photography and videography to offer breathtaking, educational views of a home star from space” to try a changes that have occurred on Earth in only a past several decades.

Targeted for a 2015 recover and made in team-work with NASA, a film will concentration on humankind’s destiny on – and off – a planet, “increasing a bargain of a solar system,” while also probably roving light-years to other star systems to contemplate a possibilities of Goldilocks, a tenure heavenly scientists give to planets that tumble inside a star’s habitable zone, like a Earth.

The space film will symbol a initial time that IMAX and The Walt Disney Studios have jointly constructed a film together. The companies formerly collaborated on a placement of movies. [Photos: IMAX Cameras in Space]

“Disney has always been a personality in formulating immersive anticipation worlds for audiences, though we know there’s no some-more immersive star than a genuine one,” pronounced Alan Bergman, boss of The Walt Disney Studios. “This is a bird’s eye perspective of a implausible star and a destiny in it, and we are looking brazen to diving in.”

“We are anxious to combine on a initial corner prolongation with Disney,” Greg Foster, a authority and boss of IMAX Entertainment, remarked. “Toni Myers and her group have given us films that have been educating, delighting and startling IMAX audiences for many years, and we demeanour brazen to stability a journey.”

Myers has been editing, writing, producing, and directing films privately tailored for IMAX given 1971. Her many new documentary underline and seventh space film was “Hubble 3D.”The movie, that chronicled a final space convey goal to ascent a Hubble Space Telescope, has grossed scarcely $53 million in IMAX theaters given a recover in 2010.

“The 1990 IMAX film ‘Blue Planet’ was a initial time we forked a IMAX cameras from space behind to Earth to reveal, on a grand scale, a changes being done to a star by both healthy and tellurian forces,” Myers said. “It’s miraculous and critical to have this new event to uncover what has happened to a star given then.”

“The International Space Station is a singular and ideal height from that to see how a home is evolving,” she added, “and during a same time try a sparkling destiny in other worlds.”

In further to “Blue Planet” and “Hubble 3D,” a latter being IMAX’s second film after 2002’s “Space Station 3D” to embody 3D footage shot by NASA astronauts regulating a cameras in space, Myers’ other space titles embody “Hail Columbia” (1982), “The Dream is Alive” (1985), “Destiny in Space” (1994) and “Mission to Mir” (1997).

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The Skinny: we finally got by a Netflix array “House of Cards,” and it usually took a integrate of months. You’ve listened of binge viewing? Well, this was nip viewing, and it worked out usually excellent for me. Monday’s headlines embody a summation of a weekend box bureau and a demeanour during a conflict between Disney Jr. and Nick Jr.

Daily Dose: After losing some big-name talent, including Jake Tapper and Chris Cuomo, to CNN, ABC News has done a splashy sinecure of a own. Reporter Byron Pitts, a unchanging participation on CBS News and “60 Minutes,” has been wooed divided to offer as a inhabitant match and an anchor for a opposition network.

“Retaliation” Nation. “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” took in over $40 million this past weekend, that was some-more than adequate to explain a tip mark during a box office. Finishing second was “The Croods” with $26.5 million, a decrease of usually 39% from a movie’s opening weekend. Also behaving good was Tyler Perry’s regretful play “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor,” that done usually over $22 million. Box-office recaps from a Los Angeles Times and Movie City News.  

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Juicing a stats. Be certain to review a excellent imitation a subsequent time we see a film studio exaggerate about a numbers. More mostly than not these days, a opening weekend goes over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Wall Street Journal looks during how some studios are removing a conduct start on a weekend with lots of hide screenings and midnight showings.

Battle of a juniors. Disney Jr. is approaching to transcend Nick Jr. as a most-watched pay-TV channel among preschoolers. For Disney, a win is considerable given that Disney Jr. was launched usually recently and is in distant fewer homes than Nick Jr. The New York Times looks during a foe and during how Disney Jr. got so clever so fast.

Maybe they wish lavatory inundate strait plans. Hawk Koch and Dawn Hudson, a boss and arch executive, respectively, of a Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences, have called for a membership assembly to speak about a destiny of a academy. Certainly, a Oscars will be a large subject of discussion. There have also been concerns about a miss of farrago in a membership. Deadline Hollywood offers a thoughts on a assembly scheduled for May.

It’s burble time. The promote networks are bustling building new shows for a tumble season. That means it will shortly be preference time concerning that stream shows tarry to subsequent season. These shows, in attention terms, are “on a bubble.” Every spring, USA Today looks during a shows on a burble and gives a readers a possibility to opinion on that are value saving. we don’t need to opinion since “The Good Wife” has already been renewed and I’m flattering certain ABC will move behind “Nashville.”

Inside a Los Angeles Times: Mary McNamara on “Game of Thrones.” Randall Roberts with an appreciation of song writer Phil Ramone, who died on Saturday.

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After signing a marketing understanding with SeaWorld, a Miami Dolphins have redesigned their logo. The dolphin on a new trademark doesn’t demeanour as extreme as a aged dolphin, and is also not wearing a football helmet he formerly wore. The new dolphin is meant to demeanour some-more picturesque and not as aggressive, that might be due to a partnership with a sea park. The group will also betray new uniforms nearby a finish of April.

Old Logo:

New Logo:

The multi-year promotion deal, “SeaWorld, Where a Dolphins Play!” will underline former Dolphins linebacker Jason Taylor and his family. One propitious competition leader will be awarded a three-day, two-night SeaWorld and Aquatica vacation, as good as 4 deteriorate tickets to a 2013 Miami Dolphins games.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – For many guests, a advantage of staying during a Walt Disney World owned-and-operated review starts before attainment during a Vacation Kingdom.  And for all guests, a advantages and perks mix to make vacation sorcery 24 hours a day – possibly during a Disney Value Resort designed for budget-minded vacationers … or during a Disney Deluxe Resort or Deluxe Villa charity intemperate amenities.

Disney review hotels are designed to yield a lot some-more than a sham underneath guests’ heads.  They are combined to douse guest in a delay of a worry-free vacation sorcery and adventures of a Disney parks.  Thus a hotels have themes celebrating a prolonged ago or a distant divided or even a universe of imagination where toys can be bigger than people.

Walt Disney World Resort offers a extended operation of accommodations – some-more than 20 resorts that change in price, permitting guest to compensate for usually a amenities that are critical to them.  Disney Value review guest are treated to larger-than-life theming, swimming pools and playgrounds, arcade bedrooms and customary amenities – and with some-more than 10,000 bedrooms during 5 resorts, about one-third of Disney’s hotel accommodations tumble into a Value category.  Families who cite a good outdoor can lease a campsite during Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground (with scarcely 800 available) and possibly representation a tent or move along an RV.  Moderate resorts, Deluxe resorts and Deluxe Villa resorts are accessible for guest who cite additional amenities during their stay.

Consistent among all of a Disney owned-and-operated hotels is staff lerned in a Disney approach of accessible helpfulness.  Also consistent: perks and advantages that supplement value to a vacation experience.  Here’s a demeanour during some of a reasons because Disney hotels are so renouned with vacationers:

April 1, 2013 at 12:02 am by newsfrombree  – 

Global personality in high-quality family party agrees to acquire world-renowned Middle-earth Enterprises, including THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT franchises.

Acquisition continues Disney’s vital concentration on formulating and monetizing a world’s best branded content, innovative record and tellurian expansion to expostulate long-term shareholder value.

Middle-earth Enterprises to join company’s tellurian portfolio of star category brands including Disney, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and ABC.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN TO MIDDLE-EARTH underline charcterised  film targeted for recover in 2016.

Burbank, CA and Berkeley, CA, Apr 1, 2013 – Continuing a plan of delivering well-developed artistic calm to audiences around a world, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) has concluded to acquire Middle-earth Enterprises in a batch and money transaction. Middle-earth Enterprises, before famous as Tolkien Enterprises, is a multiplication of The Saul Zaentz Company, headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Under a terms of a agreement, a transaction value is $10 billion (US). The final care will be thesis to prevalent post-closing change piece adjustments.

“Middle-earth Enterprises reflects a unusual passion, vision, and storytelling of JRR Tolkien, a biggest author of a 20th century,” pronounced Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. “This transaction combines a world-class portfolio of content, with Disney’s singular and forlorn creativity opposite mixed platforms, businesses, and markets to beget postulated expansion and expostulate poignant long-term value.”

Middle-earth Enterprises owns disdainful worldwide rights to suit picture, merchandising, theatre and other rights on certain literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien including The Lord of a Rings and The Hobbit, that are now protected to Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc.  The Saul Zaentz Company developed from Fantasy Records in Berkeley, California, a largest jazz tag in a world. In 1972 Saul Zaentz and his Fantasy partners ventured into underline film, producing “Payday” starring Rip Torn. This was followed in 1975 with “One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest,” destined by Milos Forman and co-produced with Michael Douglas, that won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Zaentz constructed “Three Warriors” in 1977 and a charcterised “The Lord of a Rings” in 1978.

“For a past 35 years, one of my biggest pleasures has been to see The Lord of a Rings upheld from one era to a next,” pronounced Saul Zaentz, owners of The Saul Zaentz Company. “It’s now time for Middle –earth to pierce into new mediums. I’ve always believed that Middle-earth could live over movies, and we suspicion it was critical to set adult a transition during my lifetime. I’m assured that with Middle-earth Enterprises carrying a new home within a Disney organization, Middle-earth will positively live on and rise for many generations to come. Disney’s strech and knowledge give Middle-earth Enterprises a event to fire new trails in film, television, interactive media, thesis parks, live entertainment, and consumer products.”

Under a deal, Disney will acquire tenure of Middle-earth Enterprises, a personality in party and innovation.  After execution of a 3 Hobbit cinema now underneath permit to Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc., a understanding relates to all destiny handling businesses in live movement film production, consumer products, animation, visible effects, and audio post production. Middle-earth Enterprises, before famous as Tolkien Enterprises,  is a multiplication of The Saul Zaentz Company, headquartered in Berkeley, California, and a benefaction vigilant is for Middle-earth Enterprises employees to sojourn in their stream locations.

Philippa Boyens, Academy-Award leader for The Lord of a Rings: The Return of a King, and screenwriter for a stream Hobbit movies, will turn President of Middle-earth Enterprises, stating to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Additionally she will offer as a code manager for The Hobbit and The Lord of a Rings, operative directly with Disney’s tellurian lines of business to build, offer integrate, and maximize a value of this tellurian franchise. Ms. Boyens will offer as executive writer on new Lord of a Rings and Hobbit underline films, with Peter Jackson portion as artistic consultant. The Lord of a Rings: Return to Middle-earth is targeted for recover in 2016, with some-more underline films approaching to continue a Middle-earth tale and grow a authorization good into a future.

“Pixar is generally vehement about mixing a talent of JRR Tolkien and a animators. We’ve wanted to get a hands on Tom Bombadil’s yellow boots and splendid blue coupler for ages,” eager Ed Catmull, boss of Pixar, a multiplication of Disney.  “From a early poems to a Old Forest we wish to move Tom to life for a new era of Middle-earth fans. I’m quite meddlesome in bringing ‘Bombadil goes Boating’ to a large screen.”

The merger combines dual rarely concordant family party brands, and creates a synergistic attribute between them that will also embody formation of Middle-earth calm into Disney thesis parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris and Tokyo.

Driven by a tremendously gifted artistic team, a mythological Lord of a Rings authorization has flourished for some-more than 35 years, capped by 17 Academy Award and offers a probably vast star of characters and stories to expostulate continued underline film releases and authorization expansion over a prolonged term. The Lord of a Rings and The Hobbit ring with consumers around a star and emanate endless opportunities for Disney to broach a calm opposite a different portfolio of businesses including movies, television, consumer products, games and thesis parks. The Lord of a Rings and The Hobbit underline films have warranted billions in tellurian box bureau profits to date, and continued tellurian direct has propelled The Lord of a Rings and The Hobbit among a world’s tip product brands, and Middle-earth Enterprises as a heading product licensor. The authorization provides a tolerable source of high quality, branded calm with tellurian interest and is good matched for new business models including digital platforms, putting a merger in clever fixing with Disney’s vital priorities for continued long-term growth.

The Middle-earth Enterprises merger follows Disney’s really successful acquisitions of Lucasfilm, Pixar and Marvel, that demonstrated a company’s singular ability to entirely rise and enhance a financial intensity of high peculiarity artistic calm with constrained characters and storytelling by a focus of innovative record and multiplatform placement on a truly tellurian basement to emanate limit value. Adding Middle-earth Enterprises to Disney’s portfolio of star category brands significantly enhances a company’s ability to offer consumers with a extended accumulation of a world’s highest-quality calm and to emanate additional long-term value for a shareholders.

Continuing this strategy, Disney has also acquired a renouned Tolkien community, TheOneRing.net (The One Ring, Inc. ) for $65 million. “We can all finally take a prolonged vacation. It has always been a vigilant to distinction from this community, and now we can’t wait to pass a flame over to such a good run corporate entity like Disney,” co-owner and owner Charwen Moonbeam says from his new estate on a private island of Charwenia. “We only know installments of ‘Bilbo Baggins Clubhouse’ will be a genuine leader with fans!” Staffer Entmaiden adds, “Hope we enjoyed a small Apr Fools folks!”

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We’ve arrived during a championship turn of the Favorite Famous Kansas Citian bracket, and electorate have combined utterly a matchup: Walt Disney vs. Harry Truman.

Nick Jr. has prolonged been wire television’s No. 1 channel dedicated usually to preschool children. The service, owned by Viacom, had a pound strike in “Dora a Explorer,” that done a entrance in 2000. Competition was also light: a Walt Disney Company, rapt with sport for preteenagers, operated no 24-hour preschool channel.

But in a year given Disney introduced Disney Junior, a channel directed during a minute of viewers, Nick Jr. ratings have plummeted some-more than 50 percent, according to Nielsen. On Tuesday Nielsen information for Disney Junior will be suggested for a initial time; a new channel is approaching to kick a rival, even yet Nick Jr. is accessible in 75 million homes, 25 percent some-more than Disney Junior.

Disney now has a tip 3 preschool wire programs, led by what appears to be a monster-size new hit, “Sofia a First,” a animation that stars a pint-size princess and her crazy animal friends.

Although ad income is tiny — Disney Junior accepts singular sponsorships; Nick Jr. allows promotion directed during mothers, though usually a bit — a intensity boon in a fondle aisle is huge. Even during 13, “Dora a Explorer” generates about $1 billion annually in tellurian sell sales. “People have been observant ‘Dora is dead’ for years, though a aged lady still has a clever following,” pronounced Chris Byrne, a fondle analyst.

Merchandise associated to Disney Junior shows is already throwing glow among retailers. Disney pronounced it approaching sales to transcend $1.5 billion in a stream mercantile year, a 50 percent boost from final year.

“A massive, large success” is how Richard Barry, arch merchandising officer for Toys “R” Us, described products associated to “Doc McStuffins,” a new Disney Junior hit about a lady who runs a hospital for her toys. One doll sole out so quick it shortly traded on eBay for $300.

Animated preschool shows also pull clever audiences in reruns, and some easy dubbing creates them a profitable abroad export. Beyond all of this, a value of destiny code faithfulness is incalculable. Anne M. Sweeney, boss of a Disney-ABC Television Group, has devised her fast-growing TV portfolio to keep children as they grow, only as Viacom tries to offshoot toddlers into a Nickelodeon family.

Disney’s wish is that they will start with Disney Junior; quit to a Disney Channel, directed during ages 6 to 14; and afterwards pierce on to boy-centric Disney XD or ABC Family, that is on a prohibited strain of a own. “These children are a Walt Disney Company’s many critical audience,” Ms. Sweeney said. “They’re a future, and this is their initial introduction to a brand.”

Preschool radio has prolonged been a severe and decrease playground, with broadcasters competing opposite pretender wire channels. Children ages 2 to 5 spend an normal of 32 hours in front of a TV any week, according to Nielsen. But foe is increasing. For media companies, this represents an area of expansion and, as some-more children pierce to mobile devices, there is some-more vigour to keep their attention.

The conflict has changed to apps, with Nickelodeon, Disney and Sesame Workshop, writer of PBS’s “Sesame Street,” competing to flue preschool shows to iPads — by some measures a new electronic baby sitters.

Nickelodeon in sold is fighting behind during Disney Junior. Last month, it denounced 4 new preschool programs, including a spinoff of “Dora a Explorer.” Another new array called “Wallykazam!” tries to learn literacy, embedding a reading curriculum in a tract that involves a child and his pet dragon, Norville.

Not to be counted out is Sprout, a channel mostly stocked with PBS shows like “Thomas Friends” that has grown steadily given apropos partial of NBCUniversal in 2011. Sprout is pulling new sell of a possess and has increasing selling efforts, entering a float, for instance, in final year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Preschool party is a politically ethereal area filled with advocates who boomerang during TV directed during children as immature as 2. “There continues to be a lot of stress from relatives over how most TV is too much,” pronounced Dade Hayes, author of “Anytime Playdate: Inside a Preschool Entertainment Boom, or How Television Became My Baby’s Best Friend.”

Even so, Mr. Hayes, who is also executive editor during a trade announcement Broadcasting Cable, remarkable that there had been surprisingly small commotion over “Sofia a First.” That uncover was deliberate risky since — while secure in training amicable skills — it is some-more driven by party than sincere education. Princess Sofia, wearing a purple robe and tiara, attends a prep propagandize run by a 3 fairies from “Sleeping Beauty.”

Nickelodeon’s preschool offerings are famous for enchanting characters churned with eat-your-broccoli educational messages; one hit, “Ni Hao, Kai-Lan,” aims to learn children some Chinese. “We were in a trenches articulate to kindergarten teachers and mind experts,” Teri Weiss, executive clamp boss for prolongation and growth during Nickelodeon Preschool, pronounced of a growth of “Wallykazam!”

She added: “There are competitors that dally in education.”

by Leah Zanolla
Mar 31, 2013

Disneyland fans have enjoyed giveaway refills on coffee during Market House given a park non-stop in 1955. On Apr 15, a plcae will tighten to be incited into a Starbucks (opening this fall), and will do divided with a giveaway coffee. Guests during a Main Street U.S.A. plcae had been means to squeeze a crater of coffee in a morning, afterwards move their receipt behind for giveaway refills of black coffee all day long.

Market House is to turn one of 6 Starbucks locations opening in a U.S. Disney thesis parks. The initial non-stop during Disney California Adventure final year.

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ANAHEIM – Since Disneyland non-stop scarcely 6 decades ago, sap visitors have been means to bucket adult on additional jolts of caffeine with giveaway coffee refills during a Main Street, U.S.A. café.

Not anymore.

Disneyland is interlude a use of giving giveaway refills on Apr 15 when it closes a classical Market House to spin it into a Starbucks.

“When Market House re-opens in a fall, a plcae will no longer decoction Disney branded coffee or offer giveaway refills,” pronounced Suzi Brown, a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman, in a statement. “However, guest will still be means to squeeze a several flavors of Disney Blend coffee during several Disneyland Resort sell locations.”

Market House began portion giveaway refills when it non-stop in 1955, a year Disneyland opened.

After shopping a initial cup, visitors who keep their profits can lapse for another crater of simple coffee any time during a same day.

Some visitors pronounced they are unhappy that Disney is discontinuing a practice, nonetheless some weren’t surprised.

“I consider it’s some-more about holding divided another strange partial of Disney,” pronounced Diette Sotelo of Beaumont, who has been an annual passholder for 10 years.

Ginger Miller, an annual passholder, started a Facebook page called “Save Free Coffee Refills during Market House Disneyland,” that got 115 likes. Some members wrote letters to try to remonstrate Disney officials to keep a perk.

“We unsuccessful to change any minds, though a contention has been sharp-witted on a page with many incompatible opinions,” Miller said. “And a place to commiserate.”

In June, Disney non-stop a initial of 6 designed Starbucks in a U.S. parks during Disney California Adventure. Since then, a California Adventure plcae has ranked among a coffee company’s tip locations, mostly carrying a prolonged line and portion a same specialty drinks as on a outward during somewhat aloft prices.

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Officials pronounced a 4-year-old child was pulled from a pool on a Disney Fantasy journey boat during Port Canaveral Saturday afternoon.

According to a Disney spokesperson, a ship’s medical crew were called to a pool around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Port Canaveral military also responded to a nearby drowning.

The child was initial taken to Cape Canaveral Hospital, though was afterwards airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital.

A Disney orator pronounced that a child’s family is with him during a hospital. 

The Disney Fantasy’s depart from Port Canaveral was behind r0ughly 45 mins due to a incident. The boat left for a 7-day journey in a Caribbean.

Officials have not expelled a condition of a child.

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